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I pull up into the mall's parking lot and try to find a place to park. The mall isn't too big, bear in mind, her town has only about 80k residents. I swing around trying to find a place close to the entrance and notice this huge pile of left over brown snow taking up about 4 parking spaces.

I point it out to Hermiione and say to her, "Wow. I didn't know you guys collect huge piles of cow s***." She says something like, "Oh yeah. You mean you don't have that where you come from?" or something sarcastically. This pretty much sets the tone for our interaction for the rest of the trip.

Oh yes! I forgot to mention. Hermiione was wearing a plaid skirt, nude tights and a red and white letterman style jacket. She also had an Ash Ketchum hat in the car with her that she showed off.

But anyways, we get out of the car and start walking into the mall. I'm starving so we immediately try to find the food court.

The interesting thing about this trip is that her town is mostly dominated by white folk and Asians only have a 1% demographic hold in her town. This strikingly contrasts the place where I live, the West Coast, where in some neighborhoods may be as high as 30-40%. I felt like I received weird stares, particularly me being with a substantially... youthful girl in a appearance and that she white.

This could have all been in my mind though, but I was pretty self conscious being in this new environment.

We get to the food court and there are like.. 5 options, two of which I remember are like, Subway and Chinese food I was deciding against. Well, being of Asian decent and knowing what "good chinese" food is, and, me being in pretty much the middle of no where with only a 1% Asian population, I decided against the Chinese food and opted for the Subway. Hermiione had already eaten at this point so it was just me.

Got me some spicy italian, aw yeah.

I get my sandwich and we find a place to sit and talk a little bit. I can't remember what we were saying but I do remember that it was surprisingly comfortable to be with her. I always imagined it'd be awkward, but everything just felt really natural. We were cracking jokes as we would online, we were talking to each other as if we were talking on Skype. It was almost like we were video chatting, but everything felt HD.

I finish up my sandwich in a jiffy and we decide to wander around the mall. Our first stop was this one store which name escapes my mind, but Hermiione said "Hey! Let's go to [that one store]. They have really weird things there!"
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